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Artist Essentials
4/28/2009
If you take the road from art-rock to heavy metal, you have to pass through early Blue +yster Cult. By the mid-'70s, the band would come to stand for all that was literary in metal (in a sci-fi and hor …
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4/28/2009
Pretenders is essentially the Cinderella story of Chrissie Hynde, who skipped the tire town of Akron, OH, for England in the early '70s, when punk, glam, and pop converged to form new wave. Her right-p …
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4/28/2009
When it's the Four Tops, deep just goes without saying. Deep, as in more than 40 years' worth of the real deal, of Motor City grit wrapped in soul satin. Deep, as in grooves that m …
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Artist Essentials
4/28/2009
Here's one way to make it into the Hall of Fame: get your group together in high school, then stay together for more than 40 years without a single lineup change. Spend ten of those years fine-t …
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4/28/2009
Providing the plodding, hip-thrusting title track to the John Hughes film Pretty In Pink forever ensured that the Psychedelic Furs would be remembered as poster children of '80s pop. But they di …
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4/28/2009
Cult singer-songwriter Fiona Apple summed up her place in pop's firmament while accepting a GRAMMY in 1997, after the release of her debut album, Tidal: "This world is b******t," she proclaimed …
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4/28/2009
To hear Bing sing is to feel that everything's OK with the world. One of popular music's holy trinity of ultra-icons (alongside Elvis and the Beatles), Crosby delivered his soothing baritone via radio, …
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Celebrity Playlist
4/28/2009
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Artist Essentials
4/28/2009
If Feist's soft, delicate features look vaguely familiar to some of you, it might be because she used to perform with her roommate Peaches, flexing a sock puppet as the raunchy singer battled with bass …
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